Moratorium

[aeolium]

As a corollary to antongould's thread of recommendations for morning playlists, I invite suggestions for works on which there should be a broadcasting moratorium for a full year starting 1 January 2013 (and which would not be included in concert programmes of the BBC orchestras and New Generation Artists for this period).

A restriction on recommendations here is that they should exclude works which you do not like anyway (which would otherwise spread the net too widely). The objective is to try and identify works which you like but think are being broadcast too often and would benefit from a rest.

To kick off with five of the usual suspects:

Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet suite 2
Brahms - Symphony 1
Tchaikovsky - Symphony 5
Haydn - Gypsy Trio
Mozart - Symphony no 35 ("Haffner")

[salymap]

Tchaikovsky - Symphony no 1 ??? I haven't heard it for ages.

OverPlayed IMO
Grieg - Pieces from Peer Gynt
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mendelssohn - Hebrides overture
Holst - Single movements of the Planets suite. Only played in full at a concert.
Handel - Entry of the Queen of Sheba
Beethoven Fur Elise

sorry still can't do accents, etc.

[aeolium]

sorry, saly, the Tchaik 1 was a typo - should have been 5. I've corrected it.

Actually, although Eine Kleine used to be played a lot, I haven't heard it much recently. But then I don't listen to Breakfast or (generally) Essential Classics...

[DracoM]

Ravel La Valse

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Presenters: whitterings.

[ahinton]

I think that it's actually witterings, fhg! - but point taken and endorsed loudly for all that!

John McCabe once declared that there should be a moratorium on performances and broadcasts of Beethoven piano sonatas (although I cannot now recall his recommended duration for it!); presumably, this would have been to expose the world to Haydn ones rather more easily...

I don't have any particular recommendations, but even if, say, 20 works were to be pulled for a set time, the amount of space that they'd allow for the airing of works that we almost never hear broadcast or live would be woefully minuscule; the symphonies of Pettersson, Holmboe and Sessions spring immediately to mind but there are thousands of other deserving causes...

[teamsaint]

I think that it's actually witterings, fhg! - but point taken and endorsed loudly for all that!

John McCabe once declared that there should be a moratorium on performances and broadcasts of Beethoven piano sonatas (although I cannot now recall his recommended duration for it!); presumably, this would have been to expose the world to Haydn ones rather more easily...

I don't have any particular recommendations, but even if, say, 20 works were to be pulled for a set time, the amount of space that they'd allow for the airing of works that we almost never hear broadcast or live would be woefully minuscule; the symphonies of Pettersson, Holmboe and Sessions spring immediately to mind but there are thousands of other deserving causes...

perhaps R3 could just sponsor , and have links to Spotify..would save all that research !!

Holmboe is next up on my list to investigate...thanks to AH and this board.
( Daytime R3 is very cheap, I already got most of what they play....this board though......xmas list getting longer every day !)

[EdgeleyRob]

Carnival of the flippin animals,BC on drivetime (or whatever it's called) again this evening.
I think they actually play the whole work, in weekly instalments,over and over again.

[Vile Consort]

Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I don't listen to Breakfast deliberately but every time I turn the radio on in a morning and it's tuned to R3 (or wake up to it having fallen asleep to TTN), guess what's on?

Also, didn't we get the Goldberg variations in toto twice last week? I like Bach, but the Goldberg variations do seem to take a month to perform. Or, at least, to listen to.

Didn't there used to be somebody employed by Radio 3 to ensure that the same work wasn't performed too often? I seem to remember them being interviewed and saying something to the effect of, "yes, we did rather get it wrong, allowing Brahms IV to be broadcast four times in a year".

I take it a similar job exists these days, but with the the the word "not" removed from the job spec. Come to think of it, is it possible that the current policy is merely the result of a typo?

[Roslynmuse]

Four time in a year? I've seen the same Shostakovich symphony broadcast twice in a week

Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol

[Serial_Apologist]

RVW - The Lark Ascending

... much as I happen to love this particular work

[Historian]

RVW - The Lark Ascending

... much as I happen to love this particular work

I agree with this choice. I would nominate Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique; it does turn up so often. There is so much other music from composers which is seldom heard. My musical education, such as it was, was formed by being introduced to a vast range of music by Radio 3. I feel that the range covered now is much less wide.

[Tony Halstead]

'That' Rondo from Mozart's Horn concerto K495 ( formerly known as the '4th' concerto but now known to be the 2nd), immortalised by Dennis Brain and then by Flanders and Swann.

[BBMmk2]

Mahler: Symphony No.2, "Resurrection".